Why is English a world language?

English was first spoken in England. Today there are 350 million people who speak English.
A shoking 1/3 of the world's population has English as its mother tongue. I think it is because England conquerd a lot of countries(feks in Africa and all around Oseania).
the peoples in africa, was forced to become slaves for the English, and move to america, a country columbus has the credit for finding. how did this happen? what happend in australia?
and how is English used today?


When Australia was discoverd, the Englishmen shiped their prisoners and thievs over to Australia, that way they shiped their language over to Australia.
The aborigines who lived there was in time killed by the new Australians, but there is still a few of them living in Australia.